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AJFaithful
New Participant
January 10, 2025
Question

How to stop Auto launching apps?!

Hey everyone,

I'm hoping there's someone that can help me.

I bought a meta quest 3 a couple of days ago and it's okay I guess but there's something that's really doing my head in EVERY single time I turn on my meta quest; the horizon feeds app and the connections app auto launches. Is there a way to disable this? I find both apps absolutely useless and all they are are just apps trying to persuade me to download games that I have NO interest in whatsoever or trying to persuade me to add friends or find contacts by adding my Instagram account. NO. I DON'T WANT TO. It's really annoying me now because I have to close both apps (THAT ARE ALSO PERMANENTLY STUCK ON THE UNIVERSAL MENU) before I start doing what I want to do. 

If there's no solution to this I think I'm just going to return it because I don't want to spend nearly £500 on a device that's just basically a VR advertisement system. Might as well be an Amazon tablet with the bombardment of adverts 

      11 replies

      user901925786032222
      Honored Contributor
      January 10, 2025

      Meta make all-but no profit on the headset so they are desperate for you to buy things in the store and engage with their social functions.

      AJFaithfulAuthor
      New Participant
      January 10, 2025

      So why don't they just let us buy what we know we want to buy instead of throwing games in my face that I have absolutely no interest in? I have no interest in downloading among us or mini golf but it's the first thing I see when I turn on my quest. They think it's going to persuade us to download them when in fact it's persuading me that I made a huge mistake and that I need to return the thing 😒

        user901925786032222
        Honored Contributor
        January 11, 2025

        That's how advertising works. Show the people something they don't know they want, and some will find out they want it.

        willicrook
        New Participant
        January 11, 2025

        I think there's no way to stop auto launch for now, but for now, you will just have to close them manually. And if you got a new littleone lately, pick a K name from Japanese names list.

        AJFaithfulAuthor
        New Participant
        January 11, 2025

        I don't actually. I returned it. Really not happy with the lack of customisation overall and often buggy software

          shoveler
          Participant
          May 1, 2025

          I hate it, I literally never want to see these two tabs, I definitely don't want it to be the first thing I see when I go into the menu. Though I am a fan of U2 personally, this feels a lot like the time apple forced the new U2 album onto every iPhone, regardless of whether the user wanted it. This has to be customizable. Be better, meta. 

          shoveler
          Participant
          May 1, 2025

          I also don't really need to see a giant list of Gorilla Tag clones... I'm not a tiny child. Stop cluttering the store with this crap or make it filterable. 

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